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The Uruguayan Football Federation (AUF) has received two bids for the domestic broadcast rights to its national team’s qualifying games for the 2022 World Cup, according to media reports in the country.
Licensing and Merchandising

League continues to strike ties with fashion and culture brands
Sponsorship & Marketing Motorsport

Spanish banking group Santander has agreed a deal with the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) to support its Sidecar World Championship
Business Action Sports

A new independent action sports operator and media company has been formed through a deal between investment firms The Raine Group and Causeway Media Partners, with backing from commercial finance company…
Governance Motor Racing

Formula 1’s parent company, Liberty Media, has completed arrangements for the motor-racing championship’s managing director of commercial operations, Sean Bratches, to depart from his position as early as …
Business Football

FC Barcelona, Cristiano Ronaldo and the English Premier League were the big winners in the 2020 edition of the Mailman Group's Red Card report, that assesses the strength of football properties online…
Events Multi-Sport

The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) has opened a bidding process for hosting rights to future editions of the World Beach Games after confirming it will continue past its maiden event
Media Multi-Sport

Subscription OTT sports platform DAZN has appointed Julian Skeels as vice-president of product acquisition, retention and payments
Governance Table Tennis

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has revealed that 28 cities have declared an interest in becoming the destination for the body’s new headquarters, as well as housing a range of other f…

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Esports
Esports

The appointment of adidas’ former director of global marketing Robin McCammon to the role of chief commercial officer at UK-based esports organisation Excel Esports, announced in January, appeared to b…
Teqball
Business

Dominic Bliss talks to the executives at the helm of teqball, which has just received GAISF Observer Status, and the plans the fledgling sport has for its future.
Athletics
Governance

World Athletics faces many challenges in increasing the exposure and awareness of the sport beyond its traditionally affluent participant base. Chief executive John Ridgeon tells Kelvin Tan what their gameplan for 2020 is, and why Asia matters.
Multi-Sport

As the new year begins, figures from across the industry predict the technological innovations, content initiatives and hosting strategies that will be making the news in 2020
Media Wrestling

The ICM Partners agency has agreed a deal with Major League Wrestling to sell television and streaming rights for the competition
Sports Betting Basketball

Genius Sports has extended its data rights agreement with Euroleague Basketball, announcing that the two parties will adopt a more stringent data rights enforcement strategy under the new deal
Media

Emir Osmanbegovic, the sports media executive who previously headed up Eurosport’s international sports production activities, is to lead a newly-created sports arm at Nexiko, the independent production c…
Media Football

Football streaming platform Fanatiz has closed a $10m (€9m) Series A funding round investment deal with 777 Partners, a Miami-based private investment firm.
Industry Moves Surfing

Former content chief Erik Logan to assume CEO role for surfing property
Finance & Money Equestrian

Global investment holding company Tennor has agreed a deal with the Global Champions Tour (GCT) and Global Champions League (GCL) equestrian series, acquiring a stake held by US businessman, Frank McCourt
Technology Table Tennis

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has approved the use of a multi-city hosting model for future World Team Championship events, along with extending the use of its new Table Tennis Review…
Finance & Money

Spanish league champion FC Barcelona has topped the Deloitte Football Money League for the 2018-19 season, with total revenues of €840.8m (£741.1m/$935.9m
Industry Moves Multi-Sport

Katy Chambers Mollica, an experienced executive at US broadcaster Turner Sports, has joined US Olympic and Paralympic Properties, LA 2028’s joint venture with the US Olympic Committee, as head of partnership s…
Events Cricket

The International Cricket Council is considering expanding the T20 World Cup from 16 to 20 teams from 2024, according to UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph
Industry Moves Multi-Sport

Mariam Mahdavi, at one time a prominent executive at the Sportfive agency, has been appointed the International Olympic Committee’s new legal affairs director.
Governance Athletics

The Paris trial of Lamine Diack, former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), athletics’ world governing body, and fellow co-defendants in the case connected to t…
Sponsorship & Marketing Formula One

Formula 1 team ROKiT Williams Racing’s latest addition to its sponsorship portfolio is the Royal Bank of Canada.
Business Mass Participation

The co-founders of Tough Mudder, Will Dean and Guy Livingstone, have been accused of a playing a ‘game of brinkmanship’ with the company’s largest lender Active Networks, which threatens to push the f…
Governance Boxing

International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Nenad Lalovic has expressed doubt over the International Boxing Association’s (Aiba’s) ability to pay off millions of dollars’ worth of debt as the crisis-hit body …
Sponsorship & Marketing Motorsport

McLaren Racing has signed a multi-year applied technology partnership with Unilever, starting in the 2020 Formula 1 season
Governance Football

Michel Platini, the former Uefa president who was banned from all football activities in 2015 on corruption charges, is planning a bid to become president of FIFPro, the international players’ union, a…
Media Esports

Esports broadcast and content production company Maincast has secured exclusive rights in Russia and CIS markets, including Ukraine and Georgia, to esports properties operated by ESL and DreamHack
Sponsorship & Marketing Formula One

Formula One team ROKiT Williams Racing has signed up Italian coffee company Lavazza as a sponsor for the upcoming 2020 season
Marketing Snooker

World Snooker, the commercial arm of the sport, has rebranded to World Snooker Tour (WST) stating its ambition to launch an “exciting new online platform” and double prize money over the next decade.
Governance Cricket

The Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) said yesterday that its players are unwilling to endorse plans by the International Cricket Council to trim five-day tests down to four,…
Governance Football

Germany’s Rainer Koch is set to be appointed to the Uefa Executive Committee for a one-year term, while France’s Noël Le Graët has been confirmed as the only candidate for the position of European membe…
Media Horse Racing

Ascot Racecourse has appointed horse racing media-rights agency HBA Media to market its global media rights in a five-year deal
Esports Esports

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has renewed its agreement with esports organisation DreamHack, with content to be distributed across its eSports1 pay-television channel